Random United States Facts

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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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    The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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    Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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    Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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